Imagine minding your own business just trying to get by and someone keeps roping you into a race that you didn’t sign up for. You’re walking in the middle of town, strolling and living the very best of your life and a sports commentator starts booming overhead and alas you’re in a marathon with other pedestrians just going about their…

They say black women are loud, but did you know that psychologically people that speak the loudest and have no sense of an indoor voice are people that are dying to feel heard and being loud makes them feel like they are increasing their chances of that? If there were 8 people in the room, black and white of different…

Nobody has watched more Beyonce videos than I have. You’d be lying. I have watched the music videos, live performances, interviews, behind the scenes and movies repeatedly. There was a time I couldn’t take my eyes off of her. Now that I have a PHD in Beyonce videos, it’s only right that I make this obsession educational for everybody else.…

In the book Outliers, author Malcolm Gladwell says that it takes roughly ten thousand hours of practice to achieve mastery in a field. I’d love to blog every single day like some of the other bloggers that I look up to but the truth is I couldn’t possibly. The time just isn’t there amongst other reasons. Well, the follwoing reasons.…

Why be Solange Knowles when you can be Beyonce Knowles? I don’t mean to incite sibling rivalry or whatever. All I’m saying is there is good and there is great. When you look at your squad, where do you rank on the hotness scale? Are you the leader of the pack or you are the one that guys approach to…

I sat there slap-jawed and starry eyed as Britney Spears thoroughly humiliated herself with a clumsy, sloppy, un-rehearsed performance…after Beyonce no gaal. (They really set her up for failure.) The only thing I found more awkward than her was the crowd’s roaring applause when she was finished. What are you clapping for? Kim Kardashian over-promised Britney’s “triumphant” return to the…

So as a black woman you’re a second class citizen, positioned at the bottom of the societal food chain. You’re sitting there spectating the oppression olympics and getting the wrong end of the batton constantly. And you’ve been wondering who is going to rescue you from the dungeon that is anything from patriarchy to white supremacy. And in comes Beyonce…